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As LBJ himself said after passage of the CRA, "we just lost the South for a generation". He underestimated. There has been three generations now. It was the heart of Nixon's Southern Strategy in 1968, Apparently it also played well for Reagan when he launched his campaign in MS, near the site of a notorious civil rights incident.
To this day, the South is mostly lost to Dems unless it's a southerner running. Southern male. Bill won, Hillary lost. But then HRC wasn't really a southerner, even if she was first lady of AR.
I don't know if the rural/urban divide is affecting it that much, but I suspect it is starting to a bit.